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Washington, D.C., school leaders may have pushed too many reforms too quickly, Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said. "In our exuberance to fix everything all at once, we've thrown so many different programs at you," she wrote in a letter to D.C. educators. "But now I see that we may have pushed on too many different fronts all at the same time."

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Washington, D.C., school leaders may have pushed too many reforms too quickly, Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said. "In our exuberance to fix everything all at once, we've thrown so many different programs at you," she wrote in a letter to D.C. educators. "But now I see that we may have pushed on too many different fronts all at the same time."

Washington, D.C., school leaders may have pushed too many reforms too quickly, Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said. "In our exuberance to fix everything all at once, we've thrown so many different programs at you," she wrote in a letter to D.C. educators. "But now I see that we may have pushed on too many different fronts all at the same time."

It may be years before students at 27 struggling Washington, D.C., schools begin to see major changes from reforms that will be selected next month, said D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. "It's not possible to take a chronically failing school and in a few months or a year turn it around," she said. "I think this process is going to be, quite frankly, a difficult one."

School textbooks are gathering dust in warehouses while half of D.C. schools may go without all of their needed texts when schools open Aug. 27. The distribution system is so disorganized, said new schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, school leaders have no way to know which schools will need more books.